Many scholars of ancient Chinese economic history confuse the sale monopoly system with the policy emphasizing agriculture at the expense of commerce so that they deny the fact that the latter did exist though the former was predominant.
在研究中国经济史中的专卖制度与重农抑商政策时,不少学者将两者混为一谈,否定古代在实施专卖制度的同时也推行过重农抑商政策。